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Olivia Williams

Olivia Williams

7 films · 460 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19982014

Born 26 July 1968 · Camden Town, London, England, UK

Olivia Haigh Williams is a British actress who has appeared in British and American films and television. Williams studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for two years followed by three years at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first significant screen role was as Jane Fairfax in the British television film Emma (1996), based on Jane Austen's novel.

She made her film debut in 1997's The Postman, followed by Rushmore (1998) and The Sixth Sense (1999). Williams also acted in the British films Lucky Break (2001), The Heart of Me (2002) and An Education (2009).

How their films are shot

Measured across 460 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Olivia takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 7 films we hold, 44% of their frames are day, 43% natural — the look of the work Olivia takes.

Time of day

Day44%
Night42%
Interior10%

Lighting

Natural43%
Low key41%
High key13%

Shot size

Medium43%
Closeup25%
Wide19%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
High angle6%
Low angle4%
Top down4%

Mood

Neutral59%
Tense21%
Lonely11%
Ominous5%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 460 frames from Olivia Williams's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.